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LIST OF PLATES

Facing Page
Diagram 27

The Last Furrow (Fig. 2). Facsimile from Holbein's woodcut 47

The Two Preachers (Fig. 3). Facsimile from Holbein's woodcut 48

I. Things Celestial and Terrestrial, as apparent to the English mind 56

II. Star of Florence 62

III. "At evening from the top of Fesole" 72

IV. "By the Springs of Parnassus" 77

V. "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion." Florentine Natural
Philosophy 92

VI. Fairness of the Sea and Air. In Venice and Athens 95

The Child's Bedtime (Fig. 5). Facsimile from Holbein's woodcut 103

"He that hath ears to hear let him hear" (Fig. 6). Facsimile from
Holbein's woodcut 105

VII. For a time, and times 130

VIII. The Nymph beloved of Apollo (Michael Angelo) 131

IX. In the Woods of Ida 132

X. Grass of the Desert 135

XI. "Obediente Domino voci hominis" 145

XII. The Coronation in the Garden 158

ARIADNE FLORENTINA.

LECTURE I.

DEFINITION OF THE ART OF ENGRAVING.

1. The entrance on my duty for to-day begins the fourth year of my
official work in Oxford; and I doubt not that some of my audience are
asking themselves, very doubtfully--at all events, I ask myself, very
anxiously--what has been done.

For practical result, I have not much to show. I announced, a fortnight
since, that I would meet, the day before yesterday, any gentleman who
wished to attend this course for purposes of study. My class, so minded,
numbers four, of whom three wish to be artists, and ought not therefore,
by rights, to be at Oxford at all; and the fourth is the last remaining
unit of the class I had last year.

2. Yet I neither in this reproach myself, nor, if I could, would I
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